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Asus Striker Extreme LGA 775 nVida nForce 680i SLI ATX - The Ultimate Gaming Motherboard | 
 enlarge | Brand: Asus
Category: CE
List Price: $349.00
Buy Refurbished: $213.34
You Save: $135.66 (39%)
Used (2) Refurbished (1) from $213.34
Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 12162
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Processors: 0
System Bus Speed: 1333
System Memory: 0
Modem: None
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.5
Dimensions (in): 13.5 x 11 x 4
MPN: STRIKER EXTREME
Model: STRIKER EXTREME
UPC: 610839146994
EAN: 0610839146994
ASIN: B000KH0PTY
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| • | STRIKER_EXTREME MBD LGA775 NVIDIA SLI DDR2 |
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Product Description
Overclocking, performance, unique features, and rich software bundled are the 4 basic commitments to R.O.G (Republic of Gamers) members. Striker Extreme provide a detailed BIOS option for enthusiast tweaking, 8-phase capless power to ensure the SLI performance reliability, and the unique gaming features, such as LCD poster, EL I/O, Onboard LED, Onboard button, ...etc. Once you use it, you would love it.The Republic of Gamers consists only the best of the best. ASUS offers the best hardware engineering, the fastest performance, the most innovating ideas, and welcomes the best gamers to join in. In the Republic of Gamers, mercy rules are only for the weak, and bragging rights means everything. ASUS believes in making statements and excels in competitions. If your character matches the trait, then join the elite club, make your presence felt, in the Republic of Gamers.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 Very good board October 1, 2008
Jufon (Frisco Tx.)
love this board!
everything worked like a charm and runs cool.
i will be buying Asus again!
 Flash the BIOS at your own risk!! August 26, 2008
Ife (atlanta, GA)
Pros: Stable motherboard when it worked. Does not overheat.
Cons: Expensive. Must have been released in a hurry without adequate testing. I bought this based on my past experiences with ASUS motherboards and this by far has been my worst experience with any motherboard ever! It burned my $600 7.1 speaker system because of its incompatibility with creative Xfi sound card. I had to buy a new card just because they refused to fix the bug, not because my old one is not working! Then one of my network ports gave up and soon I started to have RAID driver problems so I decided to flash the BIOS. The BIOS flashed successfully, or so it said, and on restarting the system, POOF! My screen went black and that was it. I called Tech support and they said they were too busy and to leave my contact so they can call me back in 2hrs. They must be running on Jupiter time because its been a week and nobody has called back. I had this thing for a year and that was one of my worst years ever! Now I am stuck with RAID drives that need to be rebuilt and my fear is I might never be able to rebuild them since their RAID drivers are unique. DONT BUY THIS JUNK! unless you absolutely dont have a choice. My 2 cents.
 worst Asus motherboard I ever bought, and also the most expensive :-( December 31, 2007
C. Artman (currently: San Francisco, Pittsburgh, and Philly (Go Steelers!!))
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
I went thru 4 Asus striker Extreme boards before finding one that would post normally, and that is with ZERO OVERCLOCKING. I don't know what the design flaws of this motherboard are, but there is a lot of 'variety' between boards... You are lucky of you get one that operates to spec. even my fourth try at this board will not overclock to any significant degree. I've burned almost a full year dealing with this motheboard in a cost no object system and this motherboard is the first one to cause me so much grief... I've never dealt with a board this bad... I really bit it with this motherboard and an just happy it boots at this point.
Excellent Stable Motherboard November 13, 2007
Robert (Kingston, Jamaica)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This product is replacing an EVGA 680i that I had to RMA because it stopped working.
This ASUS board has given me no problems and I have been using it since September!
Yes with the EVGA board you might be able to OC a bit higher, but I prefer the heat pipe solution on the ASUS these 680i boards have to be kept COOL, especially the Mosfet Areas!
Highly Recommended, and it is not only me that recommends it, but also HP is using it on their new BlackBird 002 Gaming PC's!
ASUS Striker Extreme September 29, 2007
W. Poucher (Waco, TX USA)
22 out of 25 found this review helpful
The bottom line is that four of 10 ASUS boards could not post long enough to upgrade the bios to 1305 which is essential for a full configuration. Unfortunately the first boards I got for prototyping worked fine. The nightmare followed.
Buy something else. Here is my experience.
I chose the ASUS Striker Extreme because of past success with ASUS motherboards and a review at Tom's Hardware. It had what I was looking for, two full speed PCI-e X16 slots for a pair of BFG GeForce 8800 GTS OC2 video cards and a PCI-e slot for an external RAID controller. The processor is an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600. RAM is 4 - 1GB Corsair PC6400 (C4). It said in the poop sheet that it was ready for those processors.
The first build was with an Intel Core 2 Duo E6700. It was a bit flaky so I flashed the bios to release 1305. No problems thereafter.
The second build was with a Quad Q6600. Same experience with the first build. So, I ordered another and then decided to order 4 more for a total of 7, one with the E6700 and six with the Q6600 processors.
The next build was a nightmare. It posted for about 15 seconds a couple of times and then locked up. Thereafter you couldn't see the monitor. I striped the system down to one DIMM, one video card, and still nothing so I sent it back.
In the meantime, the other four came in. Of those motherboards, two builds went OK with the striped down bios flash. The other two were just like the nightmare boards. So, I sent them back.
Of the three replacements, I had to pick up on old Pentium 4, an old 512M stick to get them to post long enough to flash to bios 1305. Even so, one of them never lasted longer than 15 seconds and after a couple of boots, it would no longer post with anything I had. I sent it back for a refund.
I figure that the Striker Extreme Boards wasted about 8 hours of my time. I think your odds of getting a good board are 50-50. I will say that after the board bios is upgraded it works fine. I did try to overclock a bit, but without success. Actually all I wanted was stability.
I may try another Striker Extreme simply because I hate to have a missmatch of systems in a lab. But, this is ridiculous. Without a doubt, the dumbest thing about the board is reseting the bios (doesn't work as advertised) and the difficulty of flashing the bios.
On a $300 board, why not put in a really simple bios flashing processor? Here is what I would do. Designate one of the USB ports for bios flashing. Include a 32MB or larger memory key. They are nearly free.
Your bios processor has a minimal Linux build that displays all of the bios images on the key. You pick which one to install. It backs up the current bios before installing the new one.
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